Devir Kahan



September 9, 2011

iOS 5 is near completion
Since the first beta release of iOS 5 back a few months ago, Apple has been vigorously releasing updates to the beta. In the past, Apple has been known to release a few updates, but this time developers are currently running the seventh beta of the software — and it's ... more



iPhone ship times seemed to have slipped temporarily
For a while, it seemed as if we'd gone back to when the iPhone 4 first came out. The amount of time estimated by Apple for an iPhone to ship jumped to 1-3 days up from the usual 24 hours for a brief time. As usual, the suspicion is that ... more


September 2, 2011

Latest iPad ad: Learn
Apple has updated its great iPad ad campaign with a new ad called Learn. Following suit with the other iPad ads, this one showcases not a feature of the iPad itself, but rather something that you can do with it. The ad begins asking if you "are curious about new ideas," ... more


August 28, 2011

Steve Jobs Biography: Resignation
As has been the topic of many a discussion, the official Steve Jobs biography is due out this November 21st. With the latest developments of Jobs' resignation, however, the publisher of the book, Simon & Schuster, promised that not only will the details of the resignation be included in ... more


August 15, 2011

Get money for your old Macs — from Apple
For quite some time now Apple has had a recycling program in which you send in your old Apple product — be it a Mac, iPhone, or iPod — and they'll recycle it. But that's it. You didn't get anything in return. Except perhaps feeling good that you helped ... more


August 9, 2011

Window resizing magic in Lion
For the longest time in Mac OS X windows were all resized the same way — via the little handle in the lower right hand corner of every window. In Lion though, this drastically changed. Now a user can resize a window from not only any corner, but even from ... more


August 2, 2011

You can now get an iPad 2 A.S.A.P.
Whenever Apple releases a new product there is always quite a wait until an 'average consumer' can get their hands on their very own said shiny new iDevice. And by 'average consumer,' I mean anyone who isn't willing to sit outside and wait in lines the day of the product's ... more


July 28, 2011

Recommended Read: When will we see AirDrop for iOS?
The inception of the new AirDrop feature in OS X Lion that allows one to easily and quickly share files with another Mac that is simply in the near vicinity caused the great thinkers over at AppleBitch to wonder if, and when, an AirDrop app would make its way to ... more


July 25, 2011

Lion: Time Machine now forces you to restore your entire iPhoto Library
I received a text message the other day from a friend of mine asking me what I thought about Lion. In summary I told him that while there are a few things I still need to get used to, it is definitely worth the upgrade. He responded that his only ... more


July 24, 2011

iWork, Lion flavored
Apple recently updated its suite of productivity apps, more commonly known as iWork, to include support for some of the new features in Mac OS X Lion. iWork has always consisted of three programs: Keynote, Pages, and Numbers. Keynote is a slideshow creation program, the actual program that Apple uses to ... more


July 22, 2011

You may be able to give your Mac mini’s hard drive a brother
The truly wonderful guys over at iFixit made an interesting discovery earlier today. It seems that the new Mac minis may actually be able to house two hard drives. How is this possible, you may ask? Simple, really. You see, in sticking with Apple's ideals, Apple excluded the optical, or CD, ... more


July 19, 2011

One billion people have been in Apple Stores
Today Apple confirmed that more than one billion people have walked into their stores. More than one billion people have been face to face with countless Apple computers, iPods, and iPads. Apple also announced that it plans to increase its total amount of stores to about 360 by the end ... more